I agree with most of what you said but you're overlooking the incentive bitcoin gives nations to put it in their treasury. As it grows more valuable it becomes impossible to overlook as an alternative to gold... And it's one that many big countries have lots of already, confiscated from scammers.
Once they start adding it to their treasury the game changes massively. They'll be incentivized to protect bitcoin or else shoot themselves in the foot, financially.
El Salvador was the 1st to add BTC as an official treasury asset and plenty others are in a gray area there like Bhutan & Georgia. It's just a domino progression from here, as the price grows more and more governments will be forced to do the same until they all have. Game theory demands this.
So the only question I worry about is weather or not we'll see BTC as a treasury asset in the US before some kind of authoritarian wave passes through US politics, creating a 6102 moment. Maybe even then all our digital asset SuperPACs would stop that from happening outright, but it's still a race nonetheless.
Maybe at the institutional level, but if you have self custody, the cost of a government confiscation scheme at the individual level would be high. Not only in resources, but the body count would forever destroy any kind of legitimacy. It would be the last days of the regime.
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Could be, but I've been surprised by what does, and doesn't destroy legitimacy. I mean, we interned Japanese citizens, spied on the whole country, enslaved the blacks, and committed genocide against the natives. Legitimacy turns out to be a pretty squishy idea that exists in the eye of the beholder.
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